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Reporting quality in psychological interventions. Implications for cumulative science and evidence-based practice: A scoping review.

2025-12-03 psychiatry and clinical psychology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundPoor quality in research reporting is a persistent issue that has hindered the advancement of scientific knowledge across all health science disciplines. Similarly, the progress of evidence-based practice has been hampered, as the replication of interventions is often impeded by the incomplete reporting of implementation details. ObjectiveTo map how reports of psychological interventions describe implementation at both the whole intervention level and the level of recipients behaviour...

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